| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1945 |
| Number: | 17 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Alexander Fleming |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1881 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | prof bacteriology |
| University: | University of London |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Howard W Florey |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1898 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| Profession: | prof pathology |
| University: | University of Oxford |
| City: | Oxford |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 |
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| Motivation: | Discovery of penicillin (Fleming) and its curative effect in various infectious diseases (Florey). |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Walter B Cannon |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1871 |
| Year, Death: | 1945 |
| Profession: | prof emer physiology |
| University: | Harvard University |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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